Full question
How do you implement client and server based solution-pair to secure network communication for simple C++-based desktop (non-browser) programs utilising the ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA-2 cipher-suite using OpenSSL?
Pre-text
I am a novice into using any cryptography other than pushing things into hashes and bcrypt. I need to secure flowing network data from clients to a server so a general purpose client-server solution is required. The mentioned cipher suite seems to be the big fat thing currently, providing many mitigations and benefits.
Resources
Problem
I appreciate the work done by the OpenSSL devs to maintain documentation. But I can't find anything that does not require you to be a security professional to implement the said cipher suite in a client-server architecture. There seems to be no examples on the internet or the mentioned resources.
Do I really need to spend months or years to figure all this stuff out?
So far I'm guessing I need to figure out AES in GCM mode separately then ECDHE key generation then RSA key generation and then somehow stitch it all together myself?